Ok you can argue until you're blue in the face that it's real but I believe it's fake and I'm not changing my opinion. On the episode right now, the guy looks like a deer caught in headlights and a head full of rocks and he's up to the $300k question. The question is, why fake the show? Why not make it like an actual game show and have the people genuinely answer the questions?
shareWhat proof do you have that it is fake? So what if they ask them to go over the top with some things. If all you want is someone answering questions, then this isn't your game, you want something like Jeopardy.
shareThis is a comedy game show, not Jeopardy. The whole point is to make people look stupid. The producers won't pick contestants who ace the questions in auditions.
shareStill waiting on your proof that the show is fake...
shareWell all the kids are just actors. It doesn't make any sense that they should actually know more than the contestants, especially because the questions are absolutely not stuff you learn in 5th grade. It's pretty obvious they are given answers, and then when they are used as lifelines it wouldn't be real, the producers decide. I think the contestants might be real, but all the kids are definitely scripted in what they do.
shareYou can clearly see that the kids are wearing earpieces too.
shareIn the first season they were all actors and several had bit parts (the most successful of which was Laura, as in Laura Marano, little sister of Vanessa Marano who was fairly well known at the time, and after several failed pilots she is now Ally in Austin and Ally, and I imagine it is not a coincidence that finding clips on Youtube of her from that time is difficult because of Disney and or Parental Units jumping down the throats of anyone that posts...but I digress.
The following seasons, they did go out and find regular kids. Using kids that already had their Actra cards (or wahtever they are called these days) for the pilot and first season when they didn't even know if the show would be picked up is just done to save a lot of paperwork. The story is that the kids do get lessonds and notes that include the answers for the questions of the day, and no doubt suggested funnythings to say, but whether they remember it or not is entirely dependent on them.
Anything else would be illegal, and you would not give that kind of leverage to a bunch of Hollywood Moms of kids when you know most of them are gong to be bitter and disapointed one day and more than happy to sell their story to TMZ for a few bucks.
I watched Friday's episode, and remembered why this show is unwatchable. If ever there was an argument for a reality show being scripted, this is it. After each question, both Foxworthy and the contestants try to heighten the drama by pondering the question.
Also, the amount of commercials is ridiculous. Half the show is commercials. In the 60 minutes, at least 30 were dedicated to commercials.